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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would make it clearer that this will NEVER happen or she may ask again and again and again, or push back on you, saying that it is "normal" and "fine".

"Larlo will never be staying with you for the summer.  Please do not suggest it again.  While DH and I would have appreciated it if you had offered to help out for the weekend, as both my mom and my sister kindly did, we are aghast that from our request for a mere couple days, you would come back with an implication that we would ever leave a 3-year old with an elderly women for 3-months away from his loving and caring parents."[/quote]

Oh, come on. Get over yourself. This is so over-the-top and rude.

I get it, OP, it sounds like something my MIL would say if she didn’t live in my damn house. HER mother, my DH’s very elderly grandmother with whom he has zero relationship and who lives halfway across the world, every so often tries to insist we send OUR three-year-old to go stay with her...and MIL for some reason always “jokingly” presses us about it. The first time I really laughed because I thought she was joking. But she wasn’t. After the third or fourth time I told her that under no circumstances would we ever send our kid away to a foreign country to someone he doesn’t even know for any period of time, especially not the circumstances she’s suggesting. Guess what? She still “jokingly” brings it up from time to time. Last time I rolled my eyes and just said “never, ever going to happen. Ever.”

But I still wouldn’t respond like the PP above. Sheesh. Just say, nope, that would never work for us, but thanks for the offer.[/quote]

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